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Mental health conversations

Should any thoughts or opinions trigger you, contact a mental health professional. For immediate attention like violence and self-injury involved, go to Baguio General Hospital Medical Center (BGHMC) or for less urgent matters, schedule an appointment through text, call or the konsulta app for Baguio residents. Also, you can call 911 (also for Baguio residents …

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Are you an imposter?

Are you an imposter? Are you a copycat? What really is an imposter? Dig dive, do you want to be an imposter? Moreover, what is Imposter Syndrome? Questions. Questions? Questions! My friends used to say that it is a feeling of not being enough. It is the lack of confidence, when in fact you have …

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Creating Opportunities

It’s love month, this column turns one year this February and I’m sharing hugs to all of you – at least, figuratively speaking. The love witch (tita) is here again. January came too fast, how are you so far? I guess we are thriving and hanging by a thread. Doesn’t matter, as long as you’re …

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Humor is a Friend

I think that humor has its perks. My friend always does. The need to be serious at all times is not an antidote itself but the laughter that sounds loud or too loud! I remember that I have been unfeeling and robotic to a sense. Remember that I once said, I did ziplines without shouting …

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Inside-out, Outside-in

People say that boats are shaped as it is so that water will not get in to sink it. Basically, it’s not the water around it that sinks the boat but the water that goes inside it. Coffee spilt is not because of outside factors but because naturally, there is coffee inside the cup. Ironically, …

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Affirmations

Have you tried talking to yourself in front of the mirror and affirming you’re brave? Have you heard that infinite voice telling you that something joyful and exciting will happen? Have you captured that self of yours where you smile at yourself and felt at peace with yourself too? Sometimes, you do. Sometimes, you don’t! …

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2024 Mental Health Recap

How are you? Like seriously? 2024 is just a memory of adventures, misadventures and mischiefs. Cheers to 2025 for another year opened for opportunities, adventures, and mischiefs. As I look at clear skies this New Year’s Day, I give myself a pat on the back for making it yet again – another year. It’s one …

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Watches

Hey, Christmas time is here and time is fleeting. Soon, it will be a new year to have high hopes and dreams! Have you made plans at all? More so, have you made plans to implement anything at all Lately, a friend paraded his new watch given by a “balikbayan” aunt. It was heavy and …

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Books

When did you last read a book? How many books have you read lately? Name their titles. What genre were they? Note what you learned from them. Sometimes, I think that printed books are antiques so much that ebooks are the way to go especially in this digital age or even an AI dominated world. …

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Headlamps

Although it’s a cliche, I might just say it all again, “There’s light at the end of the tunnel.” Tunnels symbolize the darkness and perhaps the darkest days of our lives. Imagine staying in an underground tunnel for 40 days with no light at all! I know we would be saying our most  fervent prayers …

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